Doctoring traditions (Record no. 50110)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9780226383132
028 ## - DISTRIBUTOR NAME
Distributor Name Atlantic Publishers & Distributors (P)LTD.
Distributor address ;7/22,Anasri Road, Daryaganj,New Delhi-110002
Bill Number ;1081654
Bill Date ;27/08/2018
082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 615.538 MUK
100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Projit Bihari Mukharji
245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT
Title Doctoring traditions
Remainder of title : ayurveda, small technologies, and braided sciences
Statement of responsibility, etc /Projit Bihari Mukharji
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT)
Place of publication, distribution, etc Chicago ; London
Name of publisher, distributor, etc : The University of Chicago Press
Date of publication, distribution, etc , 2016.
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent xi,374 Pages
Dimensions ;24 cm.
365 ## - TRADE PRICE
Price amount 2271
505 ## - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE
Contents note Braiding knowledge: refiguring ayurveda --<br/>A baidya-bourgeois world: the sociology of braided sciences --<br/>The clockwork body: the pocket watch and machinic physiospiritualism --<br/>The snayubik man: reticulate physiospiritualism and the thermometer --<br/>The chiaroscuric man: visionaries, demonic germs, and the microscope --<br/>Endocrino-chakric machine: hormonized humors and organotherapy --<br/>Baidya-as-technology: from diagnosis to pharmacy in a bottle --<br/>Conclusion: the pataphysics of cosmo-therapeutics: a requiem.
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Summary, etc Like many of the traditional medicines of South Asia, Ayurvedic practice changed dramatically in the later nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. With "Doctoring Tradition", Projit Bihari Mukharji offers a close look at that transformation, upending the widely held yet little-examined belief that it was the result of the introduction of Western anatomical knowledge and cadaveric dissection. Rather, Mukharji reveals, what instigated those changes were a number of small technologies that were introduced in the period by Ayurvedic physicians, men who were simultaneously Victorian gentlemen and members of a particular Bengali caste. The introduction of these devices, including thermometers, watches, and microscopes, Mukharji shows, ultimately led to a dramatic reimagining of the body. The new Ayurvedic body that thus emerged by the 1930s, while different from the biomedical body, was nonetheless largely compatible with it. The more incompatible elements of the old Ayurvedic body were then rendered therapeutically indefensible and impossible to imagine in practice.0The new Ayurvedic medicine, therefore, was the product not of an embrace of Western approaches, but of a creative attempt to develop a viable alternative to the Western tradition by braiding together elements drawn from both the West and the East
650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Pharmacology and therapeutics
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Genre/form data or focus term Medicine, Ayurvedic
700 ## - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Projit Bihari Mukharji
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    Dewey Decimal Classification   Not For Loan SNU LIBRARY SNU LIBRARY 31/08/2018 2271.00   615.538 MUK 25583 31/08/2018 31/08/2018 Books
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